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Jon Rauch @jonrauch.bsky.social · 2d

Useful podcast explains how the MAGA right has built a durable counter-establishment that has plans and funding to outlast Trump. www.theunpopulist.net/p/from-conse...

From Conservative Civic Nationalism to MAGA White Nationalism: A Conversation with Jason Wilson

The speakers and attendees at the 2025 National Conservatism conference were testimony to this terrifying shift on the right

www.theunpopulist.net

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 23h

This is the highest honor that this psychotic subculture can bestow on a person: to narratively weave their demise into a far-reaching conspiracy plot. It's basically their version of canonization.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 21h

I'm sure suburbia works for lots of people, but I've only lived in big cities so my frame of reference is skewed. I would die of boredom if I wasn't in the city. There's opportunity and culture and energy. Every day you walk to work or go to the bar you see 50 new people!

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 23h

fellas is it gay to live in a city

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22h

Syllogism time!

-- Real men are brave and strong.

-- MAGA men live in the suburbs because they're afraid of crime in the city.

-- Gay men live in the city.

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 23h

fellas is it gay to live in a city

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Gus Orviston @orviston.bsky.social · 1d

Thread worth your time to read:

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 1d

I still think about that exchange. It remains one of the most startling examples of sheer indifference to journalistic integrity that I've come across. That's the team that will now run CBS News. Surreal.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 22h

If within two weeks a reactionary influencer's death isn't connected to a Marxist plot to encode a DEI override protocol into your bloodstream via a Covid vaccine, you weren't really making waves in the discourse.

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 23h

This is the highest honor that this psychotic subculture can bestow on a person: to narratively weave their demise into a far-reaching conspiracy plot. It's basically their version of canonization.

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 23h

fellas is it gay to live in a city

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 1d

Urgently important read from @chrisedelson.bsky.social in @theunpopulist.net

www.theunpopulist.net/p/trump-is-d...

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is exercising more power for a fake emergency than Lincoln did for a real one.

Trump Is Destroying the U.S. Constitution and Amassing Unprecedented Powers by Sending Federal Troops to Invade American Cities

Lincoln faced a real insurrection and still did not go as far as this president

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 1d

Still, a thoroughly awful presence in our discourse:

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · Nov 30

We live in a bizarro world where the greatest beneficiaries of unearned privilege don’t merely deny their privilege but adamantly insist they’re society’s most oppressed victims.

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 1d

What I can appreciate about Scott Adams here is he is going in the opposite direction to the standard whataboutist farce peddled by reactionary influencers—instead of giving us the, "Trump's just doing what THE LEFT did first" line, he's implicitly recognized that this is something quite different.

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 1d

Yikes

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 1d

I wasn't that far off!

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 5d

Welp. Get ready for a "60 Minutes" investigation on why a trans swimmer's IG story expressing solidarity with Gaza will naturally require Trump running for a third presidential term in order to make right.

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 1d

Even funnier is that *after all that*, after Balko had systematically taken apart Coleman's original piece, their incredibly long follow-up—the longest piece they've ever run!—contained the same sort of easily preventable errors.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Hughes eventually responded in what Weiss called the longest article they've ever published. And his response, they had to know I was going to parse, was also riddled with easily checkable errors.

radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-retcon...

The retconning of George Floyd: a coda

A response to Coleman Hughes and Avak Howsepian

radleybalko.substack.com

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 1d

I get into the background history of that episode in this longer thread about a related but separate matter, all sparked by the FP's shoddy and ideologically tendentious journalism.

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · Mar 24

1: For the past week, the publication where I am senior editor, @theunpopulist.net, has been embroiled in a genuinely preposterous micro-tiff with The Fifth Column, a libertarian-leaning podcast.

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 1d

The utterly preposterous idea that the intellectual burden rested on the guy who had just dropped a painstakingly detailed demolition of their argument, in 30-thousand words across multiple installments, to now have to say *even more things.* Rather than the burden being on the other guy to respond.

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 1d

I still think about that exchange. It remains one of the most startling examples of sheer indifference to journalistic integrity that I've come across. That's the team that will now run CBS News. Surreal.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 4d

In one of his books, Hegseth complains that “the Left has never fought fair." He cites “electing Obama” among its dirty tricks, despite the fact that Obama won a greater share of both the popular and the electoral vote in 2008 and 2012 than Trump did in 2016 and 2024.

Hegseth’s Hatred of Americans Makes Him Unfit for Office but a Perfect Fit for Trump

The secretary is a Christian nationalist who wants to eliminate those who don’t agree with his totalitarian vision

www.theunpopulist.net

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The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 5d

Don't miss this Yom Kippur reflection why President Trump's attempts to erase America's past sins is so troubling on a deep philosophical and spiritual level.

Political Triumphalism Is Contrary to the Spirit of Yom Kippur

The Jewish holiday’s emphasis on repentance requires confronting our past sins, not burying them

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The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 4d

“I thought Sen. Eric Schmitt’s speech at the National Conservatism conference was a rhetorically skillful presentation of white nationalism. And, in that sense, it was emblematic of the transition that the broader conservative movement is currently undergoing.”

@jasonaw.bsky.social

From Conservative Civic Nationalism to MAGA White Nationalism: A Conversation with Jason Wilson

The speakers and attendees at the 2025 National Conservatism conference were testimony to this terrifying shift on the right

www.theunpopulist.net

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 3d

The level of corruption and frequency of illicit actions emanating from this White House continues to amaze.

It's impossible to read through @tracinski.bsky.social's latest roundup for @theunpopulist.net and think that any of this is within a tolerable range of normal politics.

Trump Hit Brazil With Punitive Tariffs for Prosecuting His Ally But Promised Argentina a $20 Billion Taxpayer Bailout to Help His Other Pal Win Election: An Executive Watch Roundup

Our early-October selection of the president's latest and greatest assaults on the rule of law

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 4d

Politics the right way!

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 4d

Criticizing Charlie Kirk is a fireable offense that incites domestic terrorism. But calling political opponents "the party of hate, evil, and Satan" is proper and good. Got it.

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Jim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 4d

Not a cult.

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 4d

Left-wing posthumous cancel culture is out of control

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 4d

Please understand what's at stake. If we fail at this, if we fail to, for example, enlist an NFT craftsman to create an image series showing the president stomping on the faces of every professor on the TPUSA watchlist, then what will happen is no one will ever practice politics the right way again.

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